Hampstead v Bath

Feb 6th 2010

Location: Hammersmith

Face: 2pm

Final Score:

Hampstead 24:9 Bath

Bath started spritely in their third encounter of the season against Hampstead. An absolute rip-snorter of a shot from Tyler Tolson immediately broke the Hampstead defence and Bath found themselves in the lead. Unfortunately Hampstead managed to come back very quickly with their class shining through. Ken Murray, facing off for nearly the entire game, had a tough time with Hampstead regularly wining possession from the face off and moving quickly into a fast transition. The Hampstead handling and pace in front of goal was exemplary and very difficult to deal with. The defence of Tom Fewson, Luke Wilmot and Ben Ebrahim had a very busy day, often finding themselves in man up play. In settled defence we did well however we struggled to get an effective second slide going, particularly on the Hampstead fast break. We also failed to make the most of the traditional Bath skill of physicality – something we need to return to in our forthcoming games. This mostly arose from the lack of numbers (only 1 sub) compared with the 16 man squad of the Hampsters. To be fair to the midfield of Kirk Rogers, Lloyd Butler, Rhys Morgan and Ken, they ran hard all day but the pace of the game couldn’t be maintained and Hamsptead were able to make a healthy lead.

The ball did manage to make it regularly in attack and thanks to Tyler’s gun, the score board kept ticking over. Nik Roberts and Mike Carey worked hard to create space up in attack with Nik even moving into midfield to take the face off for the second half of the game. All but one of the goals were assisted and the game demonstrated the team ethic that we have in our squad. Hampstead’s play also demonstrated the quality of lacrosse skill and organisation that comes with top level experience that we must continue to aim to achieve by staying in the Premiership next season.

Man of the match – Tyler Tolson

Quarter Scores:

1st quarter Hampstead 5:1 Bath

2nd quarter Hampstead 8:3 Bath

3rd quarter Hampstead 8:3 Bath

4th quarter Hampstead 3:2 Bath

Final Score Hampstead 24:9 Bath

Name Goals Assists

Ken Murray (1)

Kirk Rogers 2 (3)

Lloyd Butler (1)

Mike Carey 1 (1)

Tyler Tolson 5 (2)

Nik Roberts 1

Referee

Simon Peech (Panel)